Slashdot: Stallman meets KDE team for tea (barf)

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 05 May 2003 18:47:12 -0400
"Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb at charter.net> wrote:

> GNU and RMS have done some great work giving us the tools that we can use 
> for free.  However, I think he carries the desire to have GNU on
> everything made with their tools.  He wants to call Linux GNU/Linux - hey,
> LInus did the work and came up with it.  If GNU wants that they should
> have put it in the GNU license <G>.  

Back when the GNU compiler started, why wasn't it called DEC/GnuCC or
SUN/GnuCC. After all, there was no compiler without an OS on which to
compile/run it. You know, little things like file store and process
management. All those things that had to and did exist before the compiler.

Sort of like if I make a program in Tcl, I must call it Tcl/Gizmo. How many
programs written in Visual Basic are called MS-VB/Gizmo ?

RMS is a lucky guy to have such free time to fill like he does. I envy him
that.

> I feel this kind of nonsense - trying to change the name of Linux and
> other stuff after all this time - is a waste - it robs him of credibilty.


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